British Revolutionary War Army Officer. The younger brother of British Major General Robert Monckton, he served in the British Army in the initial stages of the war as a member of the Royal Engineers. Wounded at the August 1776 Battle of Long Island, he was serving as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the Second Battalion of British Grenadiers, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis' 1st Division of Sir Henry Clinton's army, when the June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth occurred. There he was mortally wounded leading his men so close to the Colonial troops of General Anthony Wayne that he was captured, and his unit's colors taken. Brought to the Tennent Church (which was being used by the Colonial Army as a field hospital), he died of his wounds, and was interred in the churchyard. His sword was taken from him after he died, and was presented by Captain William Wilson to Major General Marquis de Lafayette. It can be seen today in the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum in Freehold, New Jersey.
British Revolutionary War Army Officer. The younger brother of British Major General Robert Monckton, he served in the British Army in the initial stages of the war as a member of the Royal Engineers. Wounded at the August 1776 Battle of Long Island, he was serving as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the Second Battalion of British Grenadiers, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis' 1st Division of Sir Henry Clinton's army, when the June 28, 1778 Battle of Monmouth occurred. There he was mortally wounded leading his men so close to the Colonial troops of General Anthony Wayne that he was captured, and his unit's colors taken. Brought to the Tennent Church (which was being used by the Colonial Army as a field hospital), he died of his wounds, and was interred in the churchyard. His sword was taken from him after he died, and was presented by Captain William Wilson to Major General Marquis de Lafayette. It can be seen today in the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum in Freehold, New Jersey.
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